New York, NY, USA: Totem Press, 1959. Limited First Edition. “His verse began to sharpen into hard fact images, humane detail; his epiphanous Daises & Seagulls recurred into poems. He fitted his prosody to what he wanted to say, began reading Williams to pick up on the half-century old tradition of American measure. It prepared a usable classical medium for him, & he saw it in time to eliminate bullshit..... More

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by George Bornstein to Laurence Goldstein. 'Representing Modernist Texts seeks to expose, and then to bridge, the gap between contemporary textual scholarship and the critical and theoretical study of modernist texts. Modernist critics and scholars have for too long consigned textual problems to work from earlier periods and largely ignored them in creating successive..... More

Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter, 1945. Limited Second Edition. Hardcover. "Henry Miller is still more or less unknown to the general publics of England and America. It is not entirely his fault in spite of the fact that the proportion of so-called "unprintable" words employed in the construction of his three great books (Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn) is fairly high. It is, in fact, due entirely to..... More

Chicago, IL: Poetry Magazine, 1935. First Edition. An interwar example of the venerable "Grande Dame" of American poetry journals edited & published by the legendary poet-publisher-patron Harriet Monroe (1860-1936), this volume includes pieces by heavyweights such as W.B. Yeats and William Carlos Williams, among others. It opens with a short play written late in Yeats’ career called “A Full Moon in March,” which itself was an evolution and verse version..... More

New York, NY, USA: Everrgreen Review, Inc., 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage earlier number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an excerpt from The World of Sex (1940/1956), the critical work by Henry Miller (1891-1980), the great American author & artist whose earlier works were an inspiration & influence for the Beat Generation. Preceding the excerpt is a facsimile printed page..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1986 number of the venerable academic journal features essays & articles on Beat-related poets Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth & William Carlos Williams, as well as Philip Levine, Ezra Pound & James Wright. With reviews of critical studies of the works of Emily Dickinson & Pound. Another important scholarly collectible in very fine condition, with only a few very..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1988. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1988 number of the academic poetry journal features a reflection on poet & publisher James McLaughlin by Eva Hesse, an essay on the poetry of Thomas McGrath by Gene Frumkin, an essay on early work of William Carlos Williams (mentor & inspiration to Allen Ginsberg) by R. Peter Stoicheff, & more. Another collectible issue for the aficionado of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1958; 1959. First Printings. Softcovers. Two contiguous, early vintage numbers of the legendary literary journal co-edited by Barney Rosset & published by his Grove Press imprint: (1) Evergreen Review Vol. 2 No. 6 (Autumn 1958)- this issue features contributions of poetry by Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder & other giants of the Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, New York & Black..... More

New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1957. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Is there a "literary underground" in America- a group of undiscovered talents in revolt against mass culture, who are already shaping the literature of the future? This new anthology in the well-known series attempts to answer this question with stories, poems, plays and essays, many of them by new writers." (from back cover) A particularly rare & important number..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Signed by Joe Napora. "What makes a poem a poem, meaning what, beyond words, are the materials of a poem? I've been writing poetry for over forty years, but I can't answer the question. Nor do I feel the need to try. Poetry is made in the writing of it not from theories about what is or isn't a poem. But..... More